CALEDONIAN.

Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 311, 30 July 1868, Page 2

CALEDONIAN.

July 2Sth 1868 (FEOM OtTB OWU COBBESPONDEKT.) A man in Broadbent's claim had a rather narrow escape on Monday. Some of the slabs gave way and one fell on his head, hut beyond a cut he was not much hurt and is now doing

well ; this is the next claim to the one in which the man was killed lately. At Ballarat Terrace Mr Passmore disposed of his share in a claim, for £650 on Monday. On G-ei'inan Terrace work is going on steadily, and mining matters are in a healthy state. The concert and theatricals for the hospital will talce place in a fortnight or so, as soon as Mr Barrie's iron store can be procured, which is at present occupied and will be for a few days. Langish and party are making very good progress with their tunnel, south of the Orawaite.

At Giles' Terra?e, Williams and party struck the upper run of gold on Friday, and after over a day's washing they had sozs. 3dwts. of amalgam, since then their washdirt has much improved, and the fact of their having struck gold caused the ground about there to be rushed on Monday. Davis and party are in nearly three hundred feet, and they think within about twelve or fourteen feet of the washdirt, they should have been in to the dirt last week were it not for a flow of water coming down from the top at the extreme end of their tunnel, which rendered it necessary to slab the sides and a portion of the top, which has stopped the water, and they hope to be on the washdirt iu a few days. This ground at first was very easy working, but when penetrated a few hundred feet several boulders of a large size have had to be blasted, or in some way removed, so as to admit of the tunnel being proceeded with ; the stuff at present in the distance*|of three hundred feet resembles beach wash, and is composed of sand and gravel. Nicholl's and party have had a number of boulders to remove in their tunnel, and the work ia found not so easy as at first contemplated from the nature of the ground when opened. E\'aus and party are still engaged procuring water, and will not be able to wash for a month to come.

At Deadman's the prospectors have not come on washdirt as yet, and their progress is considerably retarded by rocks.

MTarlane and party have their tunnel in one hundred feet, aud also have difficult ground to work. Thompson and party have their tunin 100 feet, and have made fair progress since they commenced. Deadman's Terrace has been rushed for the distance of two miles and a-half as far as the Fair Downs, the work is \ all tunnelling and there are fifty or sixty men on the ground. The Fair Downs were rushed twelvemonths ago the same time as the Caledonian, but were not worked. This is taking the un of gold still further north, towards he Waimongoroa, and it is probable hat from the Caledonian Terrace the iggings will be extended as far as the Q lartz R3ef. At the present it looks ery like it, as men are working withq a coupleof miles of the river. The extent of the diggings is now considerable and it is pretty certain that good payable gold is to be had all along this line of country, and parties, who can procure a few months tucker would do well in having a look at this ground, which is much preferable to some ground on the neighboring fields where both time and money have been expended, and not attended by a very remunerative result.